John Oliver Quotes

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

John Oliver

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• I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Fighting
  • Shots
  • Blocking

• I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Control
  • Voice

• I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Old
  • Jeans
  • Sweater

• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Wise
  • Sad
  • Sorry

• The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Change
  • Internet
  • Camera

• I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Shoes
  • Jeans
  • Pairs

• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Never
  • Promise
  • Promises

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.

  

  Floriana Lima
  • Kind
  • Chocolate
  • Jam

• Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• When you have a lot of women in our state that do wear the hijab, we should be able to see that everywhere.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Women
  • You
  • See

• I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Pretty
  • News
  • Saying

• I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • May
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live

• I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • People
  • Music
  • Hope

• You’ll find the distance that separates you from them, by joining them.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Distance

• We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Jesus
  • Secure
  • Holds

• Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sometimes
  • Thrown

• Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

  

  Maya Lin

• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Poetry
  • Hunting
  • Desperate

• Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Past

• There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

  

  John Oliver